Super Bad on Celluloid (1998)

About this title: Subtitled "Music from '70s Black Cinema," this 14-track collection is a sample of when great music was a predominate part of every Blaxploitation movie in general release. Big hits like "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield, "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes and "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye, sit alongside well-remembered moments from the same genre: Melvin Van Peebles and an early version of Earth, Wind and Fire on "Sweetback's Theme," Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street" and James Brown's "Down and Out in New York City" to name a few, making this a compilation that's too cool to resist. Tracks ... read more

Tracks:

1. Theme from Shaft [Hayes]
2. On and On [Mayfield]
3. Sweetback's Theme [VanPeebles]
4. Something He Can Feel [Mayfield]
5. Are You Man Enough [Lambert/Potter]
6. Ali Bombaye I (Zaire Chant) [Masser/Goffin]
7. Greatest Love of All [Masser/Creed]
8. Freddie's Dead [Theme from Superfly] [Mayfield]
9. Theme from Cleopatra Jones [Simon]
10. Across 110th Street [Womack/Johnson]
11. Down and Out in New York City [Chandler/Devorzon]
12. I Wanna Get Next to You [Whitfield]
13. Trouble Man [Gaye]
14. Brother's Gonna Work It Out [Hutch]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.